The Buzz | A kiss to remember

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A kiss to remember

The boy who got his first kiss from Carrie Underwood at her Louisville concert is enjoying his few minutes of fame this week.

"I was shocked," Chase Kurnick, 12, said on the "Today" show Friday morning, sporting a #liptolip T-shirt.

Explaining why he told Underwood that they were going to do it "lip to lip," Kurnick said, "I wasn't just going to go up there and just get a little kiss on the cheek. If I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it right."

His parents helped him make the sign, they said. They were sitting in another spot in the auditorium when Underwood pulled him on stage. And when Kurnick went to school on Monday, he was a star.

"It took me like five minutes to get to one class," he said, because kids "were fist-bumping me. ... They were jealous."

He swears he hasn't washed his lips since. But he does have another target.

Who's next on his wish list? "Selena Gomez."

A high note for orchestra

The documentary "Music Makes a City" about the Louisville Orchestra's world-famous project that commissioned contemporary composers in the 1950s has won Gramophone magazine's award for best classical music film of the year.

The film, released in May 2010, was directed by Owsley Brown III and Jerome Hiler, produced by Brown and Robin Burke, and narrated by Will Oldham. It tells how Louisville Mayor Charles Farnsley and conductor Robert Whitney launched and guided the project. The project led to the orchestra recording nearly 400 new works on its in-house label, First Edition.

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards are selected annually by Gramophone magazine critics and classical music industry representatives.

Via the the commissioning project, the orchestra worked with and recorded composers who worked in a wide range of styles, including Virgil Thomson, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Joan Tower, Chou Wen Chung and Norman Dello Joio. As part of the project, the orchestra also commissioned legendary choreographer Martha Graham two times to perform solo works with the orchestra to music created by composers she had chosen.

The award comes on the heels of a tumultuous year for the Louisville Orchestra during which a contract dispute between the musicians and management led to the cancellation of concerts for an entire season. In late April, the two sides came to an agreement for a one-year contact. Under that contract, the two sides are working to determine the long-term plans for the organization with help from orchestra industry expert Peter Pastreich, who led the San Francisco Symphony for more than 20 years, as well as the St. Louis and Nashville symphonies.

Jacket gets political

My Morning Jacket's Jim James and Carl Broemel have scheduled a free performance in support of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

The concert will be in Keene, N.H., Monday, according to my.barackobama.com.

Bluegrass remembers

It was a hard year in the bluegrass world, and the loss of icons such as Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson hung over the International Bluegrass Music Awards on Thursday night.

The Gibson Brothers won entertainer of the year and joined Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice as the only multiple winners at the ceremony at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. But the attention of most was turned toward the pioneers no longer able to attend.

An emotional Steve Martin paid tribute to the late banjo innovator Scruggs with a special 30-banjo salute that included many of the world's top five-string players.

The IBMAs also saluted Watson and players Doug Dillard and Everett Lilly, as well as bluegrass promoter and actor Andy Griffith, all of whom died in the last year. Watson won guitarist of the year posthumously.

'Fargo' on TV?

"Fargo" might become a television show.

Deadline and the Hollywood Reporter confirmed last week that Joel and Ethan Coen will executive produce an hourlong drama based on their 1996 Academy Award-nominated film, currently in development at FX.

The project is in the early stages of development, and reports say it is "loosely based" on the film that made "You betcha" a catchphrase long before Sarah Palin did.

Bryn Mawr to honor rocker

Rock music veteran Patti Smith will be honored by Bryn Mawr College for her artistic accomplishments and pioneering spirit.

The women's liberal arts school near Philadelphia announced that Smith will receive the 2013 Katharine Hepburn Medal.

The college on Wednesday called Smith "a trailblazer in the male-dominated world of rock 'n' roll."

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The Buzz | A kiss to remember

The boy who got his first kiss from Carrie Underwood at her Louisville concert is enjoying his few minutes of fame this week. 'I was shocked,' Chase Kurnick, 12, said on the 'Today' show Friday